Re: SNES vs. GENESIS

I've been searching for Earthbound for years... there's about 800million of them on ebay that all say "rare!" and sell for $75+... but supposedly there's some douche somewhere that buys them and destroys them... like a douche...

Originally Posted by Errant

I walked straight in with a mixed drink in a 20oz Dixie cup in one hand, and an unopened beer in the other. I fully intended to toss them in the box, but CSC was waving and hurrying me through.

Re: SNES vs. GENESIS

Originally Posted by BrettShipes

I've been searching for Earthbound for years... there's about 800million of them on ebay that all say "rare!" and sell for $75+... but supposedly there's some douche somewhere that buys them and destroys them... like a douche...

Re: SNES vs. GENESIS

Originally Posted by BrettShipes

I've been searching for Earthbound for years... there's about 800million of them on ebay that all say "rare!" and sell for $75+... but supposedly there's some douche somewhere that buys them and destroys them... like a douche...

Earthbound will be released on the Wii as a Virtual Console game, according to Wikipedia.

I would really like it if Earthbound 64 was also released. I was waiting for that game, and they got so close to finishing localizing it for the US!

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Originally Posted by ADGZ662

Sega G, even though I loved dem both I always found myself playin the Genesis more for the simple fact that the EA Sports games were better on the Genesis n those are my fav games. Madden, NHL, Triple Play!!

NHL 94-96 is the best run of hockey games ever assembled. That shit is serious. I still hook it up and play.

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Originally Posted by davrone

Am I the only one that spent the entire Summer of '94 playing Super Metroid until I finished it?

No. I was in the same category as you. I had both systems (worked hard all year to afford both as a kid) and loved both equally--although I loved Super Tecmo Bowl and Super Mario Kart better than any game on Sega G. Anyone play Altered Beast on Sega?

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Originally Posted by BrettShipes

I've been searching for Earthbound for years... there's about 800million of them on ebay that all say "rare!" and sell for $75+... but supposedly there's some douche somewhere that buys them and destroys them... like a douche...

I sold mine on ebay in 2001 with the box (but I couldn't find the strategy guide) for $40 to raise money to buy scalped tickets to see Radiohead at Bull Run. Oops.

Earthbound really needs to be on the fucking GBA. I'm so glad they put the Final Fantasies on the GBA, but still need to get V. VI owns my soul. But I really want Chrono Trigger too. What the fuck...do they not want to make easy money?

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Originally Posted by Backwater

I'll have to say SNES because of Super Mario World, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Mario Kart, Mega Man X and Super Metroid. Also, the controllers were much better.

Nintendo was the first game system that was durable. You could do almost anything with those controllers (including dropping in a bucket of water) and they still lasted a long time. I remember the first game systems I had in the late 70s/early 80s (Atari?) had controllers that lasted maybe 2 weeks with normal usage.

Originally Posted by pocket

chrono trigger goes for like $80 on ebay, recently beeen selling away all my old games on it.

Chrono Trigger came out as a re-release on the Playstation, and recently on the DS. There were a lot of classic SNES games that were released on some form of Playstation, not sure if it was PS1 or PS2. But, I remember buying a used copy of FFII and paying about $70 for it, as there was only one place that had it. I guess the classics still do cost quite a bit.

Originally Posted by faxman75

Nintendo always made more fun games.

Yeah. Nintendo had Mario, SEGA had Sonic, but there were always more games to want for SNES. I did have both, but ended up selling the SEGA. I still have the SNES.

I finally went and got the Japanese version of the next Earthbound game (Mother 3) for GBA, so I can play it in my DS. Now I just need to learn Japanese! Well, I found out it's also not only in Japanese, but in Osaka-bin dialect or something.

I guess the SNES will always be special to me, because at the time I was staying home with my daughter, and we had a lot of family time playing the games. I have not had the time to play the other game systems.

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Nintendo was the first game system that was durable. You could do almost anything with those controllers (including dropping in a bucket of water) and they still lasted a long time.

Do you mean NES or SNES controllers? My original NES controllers still work well enough but I went through a good half dozen SNES controllers. I used to destroy those things even though I kept hearing they were awesome.

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I had a Genesis. I never owned a Nintendo system until the Gamecube, actually.

Also I've always gotten the feeling that SNES is generally the "safe" pick for casual gamers to say they loved when they were a kid, even if they only remember playing like, one game on it. Not saying anyone in this thread (I didn't even read the thread), just that in my experience IRL most people who just LOVE Nintendo probably couldn't name 10 NES or SNES games combined (not saying I can, like I said earlier, I didn't have either).

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Having had both Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo, there's no way I could vote on this. It would be like comparing playstation to N64. There will be people who like both systems, but they're both great for their own reasons. SNES was solid for its cartoonish character-driven games, and Genesis was solid for being open to grittier titles that Nintendo just wouldn't publish. Genesis and SNES both shared great titles like Mortal Kombat 2+, but let's face it... but it seems to me that Nintendo only released MK games as to keep up with game sales. I could be wrong =P